Chapter 1

                                    

                                          
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A/N - I hate having to do this, but since NovelHD has already started to pirate some of my books, here we go. These works are mine. My poor little brain came up with the plots and characters, and I'd really prefer you to not steal them. If you're reading this on a site that is NOT Wattpad then it is most certainly stolen.
Thanks!
Loiosh
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Oh! And this IS a sequel, so things might not make a lot of sense unless you've read A Little Dinged Up first!
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               Lylah,
No amount of sorrys will be enough to tell you how much I regret listening to Juliette and the team instead of you. For doubting you. For letting my own insecurities cloud my judgement. Likewise, I could say thank you a million times and it wouldn't be enough to tell you how much I appreciate you looking past all that and saving me from the predicament I'd gotten myself into. 
You're one of a kind, and I know you and Ava will be perfect for each other. One day I hope to achieve that same thing, but I know that will be a long shot. 
Be happy. Be safe. Be you. 
Yours always,
Trish 
P.S. I'm including your composition book that I took as well. As much as I hated breaking your heart and our relationship, stealing this might have been my biggest regret. To this day, I have no idea what possessed me to be so petty. Again, I'm truly sorry. I hope some day that I can earn your forgiveness and regain your friendship.

I folded the letter, placing it atop the black and white composition book and then slid everything into the oversized envelope. After I wrote Lylah's name on it and sealed it up, I handed it over to Beth, the personal assistant to Madison Jacobs, the agent that Lylah and I shared.
"Can you make sure this gets to Lylah please?" I asked with a shaky voice. 
"Of course. Are you going to be, okay?" she asked worriedly. 
"Not quite yet. But I will be. I just need to take some time and figure out how to move on."
"Good luck with that!" She smiled at me in understanding before I turned and walked out.

               "So how do you move on when you screwed up a relationship, and now your ex is happily engaged to someone else?" I asked the latest of the people I'd found on the street for my 'man on the street' episode. So far, I've gotten some very bad advice, and I was just hoping someone would give me something better. 
               Should I come up with my own solution? Obviously, yes. But I'd gotten myself into this situation, and I wasn't sure I could trust myself to not make it worse. Hell, a lot of the answers I got were just crazy or borderline criminal, so I had to do some severe editing before posting this one.
               Truly, some of the answers were mind boggling, and made me wonder how any of these people were in a healthy relationship. 'Fuck everyone in sight!', or some variation of that, was the most common answer. Right, climb right on top of the random sex train because evidently lots of random sex with strangers was going to get me past having a loving relationship with amazing sex for the last three years. 
               Now, I will admit, a lot of those people providing that answer were guys or girls who offered their services in just such a capacity, which I quickly declined. So, was the advice what they really thought would work, or were they just trying for a quick hook up in hopes that I'd say yes? It didn't really matter because I wasn't going that route anyway.